Friday, May 15, 2009

An Odd Notion

Sometimes it takes a simple question to see the idiots for the trees.
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John Stewart talks about water-boarding and generally shows the quotes that in matters like these we have to use every tool we have to fight terrorists.
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Then he contrasts that with kicking out yet another fluent Arabic linguist (the 54th so far) because he is gay.  So, to quote John, ""So it was okay to waterboard a guy over 80 times, but God forbid the guy who could understand what that prick was saying....has a boyfriend..
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It is an odd dichotomy.  That our politicians have gotten so caught up in Republican vs. Democratic that one side can say do everything to get a confession - including ignoring the Geneva Conventions you signed.  EVERYTHING to stop a bomb.  WEll, Unless the guy that can understand the enemy is a fag.  If the queer is the only person that can understand what the tortured man says, it is okay to ignore that "ticking time bomb" scenario and blow the city up.
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SO NO RANT, but listen for a second.
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Here is what this says to a liberal mind (like mine).
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EITHER the Republicans are lying about torture.  It isn't that we will do anything to stop a ticking time bomb.  Torture is only an excuse to slam the Democratic Party.
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OR the Republican hate fags SO MUCH that they are truly willing to sacrifice thousands of American lives in order keep the fags out of the military because letting them in would humanize them.
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There are no other answers.  If you were only afraid fags would make a pass at the men, you could segregate out the homos and just call them in as translators.  
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If you were afraid straight men would not fight along side fags you would not allow the US Army or Marines to fight with the Armies of England, Holland, Canada, Germany or France (all of which we fight right along side with in Iraq and Afghanistan).  So far no English fairies or Dutch pansies have destroy the morals of the straight American male.
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So really I am left with the assumption that merely humanizing homosexuals enough to allow us to defend the country is unacceptable to Republicans.  If there is another answer to the Either Or above, I would hear it honestly and sensibly without judgement.